Live data
24 dashboards and tools, from Kīlauea to Lake Tahoe. First, three live readings, as of each dashboard’s last update:
Right now
Every dashboard
🌦️ Weather & Water
❄️ STORM CHASERRainier’s snowpack, hourly: seven SNOTEL stations and NASA MODIS.
💧 Sierra StreamflowEight USGS stream gages across Sierra Nevada watersheds, with historical spaghetti charts.
🔵 secchiLive water-clarity readings from the Tahoe Environmental Observatory Network.
🌊 PUGET-TIDESEight NOAA tide gauges from Neah Bay to Tacoma; FORTRAN builds the tide from 37 harmonic constituents.
🌫️ FOG-WATCHA fog climatology for the Namib, the Atacama and San Francisco.
🌡️ Weather StationLakewood, Sonora, Reno and Death Valley, read live from National Weather Service stations.
🌋 Volcanoes, Fossils & Ruins
🌋 PELEKīlauea live: summit earthquakes, HVO webcams, alert levels and the fountaining log.
🌍 AFTERSHOCKA live earthquake dashboard for the US and the world, against ten years of normal.
🌋 lahar-watchTen NOAA gauges on the rivers a Rainier lahar would follow.
🏺 Project KivaTwelve archaeological places in bare-earth lidar, from Chaco Canyon to Cahokia.
☀️ SOLSTICEThe live Sun and Moon over Chaco Canyon, with each great house’s real skyline.
⛏️ Mother LodeThe gold belt where I grew up, in bare-earth lidar.
🐟 Science & Nature
🌳 Cypress DomesCypress domes in Big Cypress, found by streaming USGS lidar.
🏔️ ALPINE-WATCHSatellites watch 17 mountain lakes: colour, chlorophyll, ice-out and summer temperature.
🐾 DIPODOMYSLive iNaturalist data on two kangaroo rat species in Death Valley.
🗺️ Maps & Flyovers
🌲 LiDAR ExploreA synthetic Finnish forest, then 1,840 real stands checked against Finland’s national inventory.
🛰️ Sentinel StockpileEight Pacific Northwest yards measured twice a week from Sentinel-2.
🗺️ #30DayMapChallenge 2026A map a day through November.
🚴 Cycling, Sports & Training
⚾ EDGARThe Mariners in one line, the AL West race and pitch arsenals, rebuilt nightly.
⛽ FuelCastA fueling engine for the build to Ironman 70.3 Victoria.
🏔 OutsideRacing, the teams and the season.
🍺 HopLove